Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Season 3 question

[gtadbzman]

I was wondering, did Cartoon Network lose the rights to the 3rd season of the "Where Are You!" series? I realize it was part of the Scooby-Doo All-Stars series, but why not air it? It would keep the series from being so repetitive. Can someone please tell me if CN has lost the rights to air it? Thanks for your response. :)

[hobbyfan]

I was wondering, did Cartoon Network lose the rights to the 3rd season of the "Where Are You!" series? I realize it was part of the Scooby-Doo All-Stars series, but why not air it? It would keep the series from being so repetitive. Can someone please tell me if CN has lost the rights to air it? Thanks for your response. :)

That "3rd season", otherwise known as simply, "The Scooby-Doo Show", was last on Boomerang, and is simply on hiatus.

[gtadbzman]

I'm suprised they don't bring back the Scooby-Doo Show along with the "Where Are You!" back on CN weekdays. That would be so cool to see The Scooby-Doo Show back on CN.

[rainstorm46]

I'm suprised they don't bring back the Scooby-Doo Show along with the "Where Are You!" back on CN weekdays. That would be so cool to see The Scooby-Doo Show back on CN.

It would be nice to see The scooby doo show back on cartoon network. I dont think the show has been on cartoon network since maybe 2001 or 2002. I have noticed people do not talk about this version of scooby doo that often.

[gtadbzman]

The Scooby Doo Show should be shown with the Where Are You! series on weekdays. I miss The Scooby Doo Show. My favorite was the one with the Chocolate, Vanilla, & Strawberry phantoms. :anime:

[rainstorm46]

The Scooby Doo Show should be shown with the Where Are You! series on weekdays. I miss The Scooby Doo Show. My favorite was the one with the Chocolate, Vanilla, & Strawberry phantoms. :anime:

Unfortunately I dont think Cartoon Network is airing Scooby Doo where are you on the schedule right now though.

[gtadbzman]

Unfortunately I dont think Cartoon Network is airing Scooby Doo where are you on the schedule right now though.That's sorta what I mean. Scooby-Doo Where Are You! only has like 25 episodes and is taken off in a short time. That's why they should run The Scooby Doo Show with it to reduce this problem. It wouldn't be near as repetitive and would be able to stay on a lot longer. Really, any Scooby-Doo series would be nice to run other than "Where Are You!" series.

[rainstorm46]

That's sorta what I mean. Scooby-Doo Where Are You! only has like 25 episodes and is taken off in a short time. That's why they should run The Scooby Doo Show with it to reduce this problem. It wouldn't be near as repetitive and would be able to stay on a lot longer. Really, any Scooby-Doo series would be nice to run other than "Where Are You!" series.

Well they air A pup named scooby doo which is actually my favorite of the scooby doo series. I think it would be interesting if they aired scooby and scrappy doo and where are you in rotation. 2 days of where are you and 2 days of scrappy. I can hardly remember scooby and scrappy I dont think its aired on cartoon network since maybe 2000 or 2001

[Eric B]

They never did play the Scooby Doo Show all that often. They focused on Where Are You, and everything afterward would circulate every once in awhile. The Comedy Movies did get a bit more airplay, such as their own marathon a couple of years. They would sometimes dedicate an hour slot to them, but the half hour show was dedicated to the original format. The Scooby Doo Show was not as good as those first four seasons anyway, and perhaps its only merit was that it was the last incarnation of the show that retained the original characters in the original format and animation style. But enough had changed (Velma's voice, the settings, music, etc), to make them feel very different from Where Are You.

[likewow]

Hmmm...I feel differently. At least in the first season, 1976, the show was very similar to "Where Are You?" They used mostly the same background music, all the voices except Velma's were the same, and it was a half hour. These episodes would fit in nicely in rotation with the first two seasons. It's The New Scooby Doo Movies episodes that stick out like a sore thumb;) Overlong, dull, forgettable villains...a very different show in tone than the original. But the '76 -'78 shows felt like a return to Scooby's roots. And this would be the last show to really feel like "Where Are You?"

And I love the ice cream phantoms episode too! :D

[Mister Intensity]

Hmmm...I feel differently. At least in the first season, 1976, the show was very similar to "Where Are You?" They used mostly the same background music, all the voices except Velma's were the same, and it was a half hour. These episodes would fit in nicely in rotation with the first two seasons. It's The New Scooby Doo Movies episodes that stick out like a sore thumb;) Overlong, dull, forgettable villains...a very different show in tone than the original. But the '76 -'78 shows felt like a return to Scooby's roots. And this would be the last show to really feel like "Where Are You?"

And I love the ice cream phantoms episode too! :D

While I feel that overall Where Are You is better than the Scooby-Doo Show, I never liked the way CN and Boomerang just reran the 25 episodes of Where Are You over and over again. If you add Where Are You and the Scooby-Doo Show together the total number of episodes is the magic number of 65, which back in the day when such things mattered, is the minimum number of episodes required for daily syndication (one episode per day, five days a week for 13 weeks). Besides I always felt that the Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour episodes (the first season of the Scooby-Doo Show) featured some of the best episodes of the entire series. The show didn't really get bad until the following two seasons, particularly the 1978 season (the season with the title cards). By then things got so stale that they added Scrappy to freshen up the show (and remember the show lasted five and a half years longer after he came aboard).

Ironically, the post-Scrappy season that many considered one of the best of that era, the Thirteen Ghosts of Scooby-Doo was the season that Scooby got cancelled mid-season (I'm a fan of that season but let's write history the way it actually happened).

[snowpeck]

Boomerang is still playing The Scooby Doo Show on weekends.


Greg

[Eric B]

Hmmm...I feel differently. At least in the first season, 1976, the show was very similar to "Where Are You?" They used mostly the same background music, all the voices except Velma's were the same, and it was a half hour. These episodes would fit in nicely in rotation with the first two seasons. It's The New Scooby Doo Movies episodes that stick out like a sore thumb;) Overlong, dull, forgettable villains...a very different show in tone than the original. But the '76 -'78 shows felt like a return to Scooby's roots. And this would be the last show to really feel like "Where Are You?"

And I love the ice cream phantoms episode too! :DWhile I feel that overall Where Are You is better than the Scooby-Doo Show, I never liked the way CN and Boomerang just reran the 25 episodes of Where Are You over and over again. If you add Where Are You and the Scooby-Doo Show together the total number of episodes is the magic number of 65, which back in the day when such things mattered, is the minimum number of episodes required for daily syndication (one episode per day, five days a week for 13 weeks). Besides I always felt that the Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour episodes (the first season of the Scooby-Doo Show) featured some of the best episodes of the entire series. The show didn't really get bad until the following two seasons, particularly the 1978 season (the season with the title cards). By then things got so stale that they added Scrappy to freshen up the show (and remember the show lasted five and a half years longer after he came aboard).

Ironically, the post-Scrappy season that many considered one of the best of that era, the Thirteen Ghosts of Scooby-Doo was the season that Scooby got cancelled mid-season (I'm a fan of that season but let's write history the way it actually happened).

Actually, the second Scooby Doo show season, 1977, and now the eight "lost" episodes, were closer to the original "where Are You" than even the 1976 season. Even as I watched during their original run; I had noted how the episodes sounded a bit more like the old show. The voices were the same, but the background music and the settings (a witch's cave up on Spider Mountain, etc) were better. 1976 had introduced Dynomuttesque score, and some episodes consisted entirely of this, while others were mixed. This was then used much less in the eight episodes held for 1977, but then brought out more, with even newer "Superfriends" style score in 1978.

Truly, the 1977 episodes, which many are upset were left off of all the DVD's, would have made a much truer "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Season 3" than the 1978 season. They should have at least put both seasons on there, or the best thing would have been to do both seasons of Laffalympics with the episodes.

The Scooby Comedy Movies are the closest continuation of the original show. Velma still has the original voice and personality, which is very important; more of the original score; edited and mixed right, and some new pieces that fit in as well; and the group dynamic is still closer to the original. (It wasn't all about Shaggy and Scooby dealing with the ghost alone and not otherwise being part of the ystery; though the Jerry Reed episode sort of set the stage for that).
The hour long format made for more developed plots, some of which were like extensions of Where Are You stories. And since it's a people-oriented show, the presence of more people (the guests) helped and made them all the more memorable.

[gtadbzman]

Personaly, I think that CN should just make a show called "The Scooby-Doo Hour" and just put all of the shows from all the different series in that hour. Say for example, one episode of "What's New Scooby-Doo" & one episode of "Where Are You", sorta similar to how CN's "Carton Cartoon Show" is ran but with Scooby-Doo episodes instead. It would be genius and Scooby-Doo would never get old. Heck all the series together has about a zillion episodes.

[Silverstar]

Personaly, I think that CN should just make a show called "The Scooby-Doo Hour" and just put all of the shows from all the different series in that hour. Say for example, one episode of "What's New Scooby-Doo" & one episode of "Where Are You", sorta similar to how CN's "Carton Cartoon Show" is ran but with Scooby-Doo episodes instead. It would be genius and Scooby-Doo would never get old. Heck all the series together has about a zillion episodes.

CN actually tried something like a few years back, IIRC...

[gtadbzman]

CN actually tried something like a few years back, IIRC...Really? I don't remember very well. What did they call it & what was it like?

[Silverstar]

Really? I don't remember very well. What did they call it & what was it like?

I don't remember the name, but they basically did what you mentioned: show a bunch of the various Scooby shows in succession on weekends. they would usually do various episodes of one particular Scooby show at a time (I think). I remember they were doing The New Scooby-Doo Movies around the time I first moved into my current house.

[gtadbzman]

I don't remember the name, but they basically did what you mentioned: show a bunch of the various Scooby shows in succession on weekends. they would usually do them show-by-show at a time (I think). I remember they were doing The New Scooby-Doo Movies around the time I first moved into my current house.CN should try something like that again because I really think something like that could be a success. I would also be very pleased with CN if they got the "Get a Clue" series, even though I hate the art style.